4mula1;185654 Wrote: 
> I have SlimServer running on Solaris 10 x86 and have found it to be a
> much better experience than running SlimServer on Windows.  My wife has
> an iPod and has said she'd like to be able to play her music from time
> to time (it's all on the XP box) via the Squeezebox.  I still had
> SlimServer installed on the XP box so I pointed it at iTunes and
> everything worked reasonably well so I thought I'd just find a way to
> mount her iTunes music on the Solaris box and run another instance of
> SlimServer in a seperate zone just for her iTunes music since we have
> some music that overlaps and they aren't in the same format.  When she
> wants to listen to her stuff she just points the Squeezebox to the
> SlimServer in the iTunes zone.
> 
> I looked at Samba (I already have my music folder on my Solaris box
> shared via Samba) but quickly found that unlike Linux, Solaris doesn't
> support smbmount.  Let me say it again, Solaris DOES NOT support
> SMBMOUNT.  Apparently it's in the Linux kernel and not in the Solaris
> kernel.
> 
> So I looked at NFS, since that's what Solaris is bred for.  I looked at
> Microsoft's Services for Unix but had my hopes crushed because it
> doesn't work on XP Home.  There went the easy route to NFS.
> 
> I know there are some other NFS servers available for Windows, but they
> either come with a suite of applications I don't need (and don't want to
> pay for) or have a price that I feel is a bit steep (40+ USD).  I don't
> want to spend any money on this if I don't have to, so I'm looking for
> any other options I might've missed.


Long ago I used PC Netlink with Solaris for SMB...it worked quite
well..and I liked it better than Samba back then.  Have not checked if
that product is current though...  It was based on actual NT server
code somehow aquired through aquisition/license by Sun -- so
compatibility with older versions of Windows was very good.


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